Outbreak of pertussis at community A in Dormaa Municipality, Ghana, August 2016

Outbreak of pertussis at community A in Dormaa Municipality, Ghana, August 2016

Florence Nzilanye Iddrisah^1,2,&, Samuel Dapaah¹, Meeyoung Mattie Park², Daniel Owusu-amponsah³, Joseph Asamoah Frimpong⁴, Scott JN McNabb², Ernest Kenu¹, Edwin Andrew Afari¹, Ernest Konadu Asiedu¹

 

¹Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Accra, Ghana, ²Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA, ³Ghana Health service, Ghana, ⁴African Field Epidemiology Network, Accra, Ghana

 

 

^&Corresponding author
Florence Nzilanye Iddrisah, Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Accra, Ghana, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

 

 

 

 

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Time required: approximately 3 hours

 

Language: English

 

 

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The authors declare no competing interest.

 

 

We wish to acknowledge the support and contributions Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training programme (GFELTP) of the Faculty of the Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, for their assistance. The team is thankful to the Deputy Director, Public Health Brong Ahafo, Dr. O.K. Afreh and his team, the staff of the Municipal Health Directorate, especially the surveillance team, Dormaa, the paediatrician Dr. Adomah Fokuo and her able medical team, and Presbyterian Hospital Dormaa for their cooperation, support and active participation during the investigation.

 

 

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